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Great news for those of you who love the older Super Sentai series! Shout! Factory TV, the digital entertainment side of Shout! Factory, will be hosting a live stream marathon of Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger (best known to Power Rangers fans as the Sentai series that spawned Mighty Morphin Power Rangers) on Saturday, January 23rd in an event being billed as Super Sentai Spectacular Saturday!

The livestream marathon will be hosted by tokusatsu expert August Ragone and will run from 9am PST until 12pm PST. You can watch the livestream at ShoutFactoryTV.com or via Pluto TV if you use Android, iOS, Roku, or another TV stick service.

Be sure to follow @ShoutFactoryTV on Twitter, but also keep it tuned in to our Twitter as well @TokuNation as we partner together in celebrating Super Sentai Spectacular Saturday with Shout! Factory TV! Be sure to use the hashtag #Zyuranger when discussing the livestream!

under Conventions, General Tokusatsu News, Other Conventions, Power Rangers, Super Sentai, Ultraman

It’s that time of year once again for the comic & toy convention season to get under way! And getting the ball rolling on both fronts is the upcoming Lexington Comic & Toy Con, from March 13th-15th! What began in 2012 as a con that garnered over 1000 guests has flourished in the years since to it’s height now, attracting upwards of 20,000 guests from the around the midwest & southeast!

What’s even more impressive is how the guest list for this con has grown from featuring just a few of your favorite Power Rangers actors, to being one of the nations premiere selections of ranger actors! This year the convention staff have pulled out all the stops to offer the BIGGEST selection of Power Rangers, & Indeed Super Sentai actors, possible! Not to mention a few other fantastic bonuses for Ultraman fans! Check out the full guest list as it pertains to the tokusatsu fandom below, as maintained by our very own uchihabro77! 

Aside from this star studded guest list, LexCon is also an opportunity for fans to make real world connections. As I’ve done in years past I will of course be there repping for TokuNation.com & the Talkin Toku Podcast. But many other groups and personalities in the tokusatsu fandom will also be in attendance like trekkieb47 of Ranger Command Power Hour and RiderJetfire of Dans Toku Rants. If you’re going to be in attendance be sure to post in our Lexington Comic & Toy Con 2015 thread. We’ll see you there!

 

under Conventions, Other Conventions, Super Sentai

Announced on the LexCon facebook page comes word that Yuta Mochizuki known for his role as Tyranno Ranger in Kyoryu Sentai Zyurager has sadly had to cancel his LexCon appearance for this year. Mr Mochizuki has become severely ill and unfortunately can’t make the trip to the states for now.

The silver lining to this sad situation though is that another Zyuranger actor will be taking his place. None other than Aohisa Takayasu AKA Mammoth Ranger! We certainly send our best wishes to Mr. Mochizuki and hope for a swift recovery, in the interim though be sure to head to the Lexington Comic & Toy Con from March 13th-15th to meet Mr. Takayasu!

under Power Rangers, Super Sentai

In what appears to be a a complete accident at least one copy of the Shout! Factory Super Sentai Zyuranger DVD Set has made it’s way to a happy owner ahead of it’s February 17th release!

Twitter user @TucsonPRZealot has just let the world know that he’s received his Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger set early! And he’s been kind enough to share in hand images of this sets packaging along with screen caps of the menus and a tease of the subtitles!

under Super Sentai, Ultraman

As if the the guest list isn’t already star studded for the Lexington Comic & Toy Convention 2015, 2 more huge announcements have just been made!

Sure to please fans of Super Sentai & Power is the addition of another cast member form Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger. Making his North American convention debut is Takumi Hashimoto AKA Tiger Ranger/Boi! Joining fellow castmates Yuta Mochizuki & Reiko Chiba LCTC 2015 is shaping up to be quite the Zyuranger reunion.

And adding to the already awesome attendance of Bin Furuya the suit actor of the original Ultraman, is Hiroko Sakurai! Mrs. Sakurai of course portrayed Yuriko Edogawa in Ultra Q, and would later go on to play Akiko Fuji of the Science Patrol in the original Ultraman TV series!

under Conventions, Other Conventions, Super Sentai, Ultraman

The Lexington Comic & Toy Con has been quickly gaining steam the last few years as one of the biggest and best east coast conventions for Power Rangers fans and actors. Well this year the show’s growing once again with a recent announcement of four brand new guests!

Yuta Mochizuki – Geki/Tyranno Ranger from Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger! This is notable as only the second US convention appearance that Yuta has made. The first having only been a few months ago at Power Morphicon!

Rekio Chiba – Mei/Ptera Ranger from Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger! The first EVER appearance by Ms Chiba at a US convention! If you know her at all then you know that Reiko Chiba has been incredibly active on Twitter (@CHIBAREI_DURGA) for a long time and interacts with fans regularly. In fact she had cryptically tweeted about this upcoming appearance a few weeks ago but saved the official reveal for the LCTC facebook page.

Bin Furuya – A veteran of several Toho film productions for many years, a suit actor on the original Ultra Q series and subsequently the suit actor of the Original Ultraman! Mr Furuya is a veteran of the highest order in the Tokusatsu world.

And last but not least, Paul Freeman – Ivan Ooze in the original Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie! Of course Mr Freeman is an actor with an incredibly lengthy resume of credits, but we know him best for his deliciously crazy portrayal of Ivan ooze.

under Super Sentai

The highly-anticipated Shout! Factory release of Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger is now up for preorder at Amazon.com!

 

The complete series is set for release on February 17 2015 and has a suggested retail price of 55.99 USD. Keep in mind all price & release details are subject to change!

 

 

under Power Rangers, Super Sentai

TokuNation broke the news to the world back in July that Shout! Factory would be bringing Zyuranger to the US in the form of a complete Series DVD set. Now only a few short months later we have the first look at what that set will be like!

Revealed via Brian Ward’s twitter account (@BWard028) is our first look at the Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger DVD cover! Sporting a “before Power Rangers there was…” line across the top it looks like this set should appeal to both Power Rangers and Sentai fans alike. What are your thoughts on this image? How do you think this DVD set will sell  and what will it mean for possible future sets? Join the discussion after the jump by clicking “Discuss on the TokuNation Forums” at the bottom of this post.

under Conventions, Power Morphicon, Power Rangers

Just in time for the upcoming Power Morphicon convention, the original Mighty Morphin Red Power Ranger and Zeo Gold Ranger, Austin St. John, has opened up his online store with merchandise that fans can purchase to support their childhood hero! Featuring a number of items showcasing Austin St. John’s time spent as both the Red Mighty Morphin Power Ranger and the Gold Zeo Ranger, fans can purchase items for men, women, as well as youth items – and of course, your own personalized autograph from the man himself!

And don’t forget the fan-favorite item for kids – the “Future Ranger” one piece!

Be sure to purchase your items now so you can receive them in time for the upcoming Power Morphicon convention! Austin St. John’s “Back to Action” tour continues with the trip in Pasadena to celebrate 20 years of Power Rangers and the first ever meeting between his Japanese counterpart, Yuuta Mochizuki, who played Geki the Tyranno Ranger from the Japanese series Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger, otherwise known as the show that Mighty Morphin Power Rangers was based off!

To begin shopping, simply click here or visit AustinStJohn.US and order those shirts! All items are made in the USA! We will see you at this year’s Power Morphicon!

under Conventions, San Diego Comic Con, Super Sentai

Straight from the just concluded Shout Factory SDCC panel we have a huge official announcement from the company. A complete series release of Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger, fully subbed, is happening!

That’s right folks, the show from which Mighty Morphin Power Rangers drew it’s source material will be released on a complete series DVD set with full subtitles! And chances are that with Shout Factory’s history of including incredible extras, this set will have some great surprises! When asked about the release itself Shout Factory’s Brian Ward confirmed that this was Saban Brands idea. So this came directly from them, as in Saban approached Shout Factory about putting this release together.

While at the panel we also asked about the black sheep of the Saban Tokusatsu family, Mystic Knights of Tir Na Nog. This often forgotten but excellent series is a personal favorite of mine and I was curious as to whether it could ever see a release. Brian Ward put it this way, there are legal rights issues to releasing certain series such as Mystic Knights and he went on to specifically mention that Masked Rider falls into that same category. The rights for shows like this don’t necessarily sit in Saban Brands hands, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that they won’t happen.